Mara Kay Kieren

English Educator [Profesora de Ingles]

Summary

I graduated from university with a bachelors degree in international relations in December of 2011. In 2013, I moved to the South of China where I worked as an early childhood education teacher for three years for children ages 3-10. I am currently in the process of obtaining my teaching certificate for elementary education (K-6) and studying Spanish at the National University of Colombia. After November of 2016, I will be certified in the United States to teach elementary education, as well as having ample experience teaching English and communicating with non-native speakers.

Work together with co-workers from other classes to create unit planners and summative assessment tasks pertaining to the UOI in order to make activities that support learning objectives [Trabajar en conjunto con los compañeros de trabajo de otras clases para crear los planificadores de unidades y tareas de evaluación sumativa pertenecientes a la UOI con el fin de realizar actividades de apoyo a los objetivos de aprendizaje]

Introduced basic ESL vocabulary by demonstrating the situations the vocabulary would be used in and practiced sentence structure that would be applicable in every day life [Introducido vocabulario básico de ESL mediante la demostración de las situaciones, el vocabulario que se utilizaría en practica y la estructura de la oración que serían aplicables en la vida cotidiana]

Practiced written and spoken English as a group, in teams, or in pairs so that students could practice speaking in a variety of different situations [Practicada Inglés hablado y escrito como un grupo, en equipos, o en parejas, de modo que los estudiantes puedan practicar hablar en una variedad de situaciones diferentes]

Learned about the difficulties of teaching English as a second language and various methods of differentiation to cope with language barriers [Aprendido acerca de las dificultades de la enseñanza del Inglés como segunda lengua y diversos métodos de diferenciación de hacer frente a las barreras del idioma]

EdTech GZ (Guangzhou, China)

American international school of guangzhou

Oct 2015Oct 2015

Attended one day of technology based trainings that can be implemented in the classroom [Asistido a una jornada de entrenamientos de base tecnológica que se puede implementar en el aula]

Joined a workshop about how to “gamify” your classroom and make every day learning objectives into a game that will motivate your students [Unido a un taller acerca de cómo "gamify" su salón de clases y hacer los objetivos de aprendizaje cada día en un juego que va a motivar a sus estudiantes]

Participated in a workshop about how to use Makey Makey and how to implement Makey Makey in a young learners classroom [Participaron en un taller sobre el uso de Makey Makey y cómo implementar Makey Makey los niños que aprenden en el aula]

References

Reference letters are available upon request[Las cartas de referencia están disponibles bajo petición]